A technical malfunction Internet provider Cloudflare has once again made many websites and online apps unavailable. The career network, among others, was affected on Friday morning LinkedIn and the video service Zoom. Also media websites like Politico could not be reached at times. Curiously, the platform alletreib.de, which records outages on the web, was also affected by the outage at Cloudflare.
A major disruption at Cloudflare had already caused massive disruptions in mid-November. Back then, there were social media platforms X and Truth Social offline for hours, which were not affected by the disruption on Friday. Also the AI offering from OpenAI, ChatGPT as well as the competing service Perplexity could no longer provide answers at that time because users could not reach the websites. In addition, the error also hit large consumer websites such as ikea.com.
Cloudflare is a global Internet infrastructure and security provider whose services are designed to make websites and online applications faster, more secure and more stable. The US service is particularly known for its DDoS defense. This means: It protects websites from being paralyzed by mass requests. This is also the reason why major publications and web portals rely on Cloudflare.